From baby bump to marriage vows!
Rosa Rothwell knows her pregnancy is scandalous. She will do anything to protect her baby, even staging a daring escape from her family's Italian home. Rosa has no idea what the future holds-until a handsome but infuriating stranger offers his help.
Convinced his family is cursed, Lord Hunter believes he's far better off alone. But the pregnant debutante's sweet nature touches him deeply. Can he confront his demons at last, and give them both a new future...as husband and wife?

Laura Martin writes historical romances with an adventurous undercurrent. When not writing she spends her time working as a doctor in Cambridgeshire, where she lives with her husband. In her spare moments Laura loves to lose herself in a book, and has been known to read from cover to cover in a single day when the story is particularly gripping. She also loves to travel-especially to visit historical sites and far-flung shores.